Cat Quotes Cat Quotes Page 25 "It's going to freeze," she would say, "the cat's dancing." - Colette If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering, outspoken, honest fellow-but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much. - Philip Gilbert Hamerton The cat is utterly sincere. - Fernand Mery If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats. - Aldous Huxley It (the Cheshire Cat) vanished quite slowly, beigninning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone. - Colette Should ever anything be missed - milk, coals, umbrellas, brandy - the cat's pitched into with a boot or anything that's handy. - C. S. Calverley Cats mean kittens, plentiful and frequent. - Doris Lessing Pure herring oil is the port wine of English cats. - Honore de Balzac Cleanliness in the cat world is usually a virtue put above godliness. - Carl Van Vechten Unlike us, cats never outgrow their delight in cat capacities, nor do they settle finally for limitations. Cats, I think, live out their lives fulfilling their expectations. - Irving Townsend No one can have experienced to the fullest the true sense of achievement and satisfaction who has never pursued and successfully caught his tail. - Rosalind Welcher I shall never forget the indulgence with which he treated Hodge, his cat, for whom he used to go out and buy oysters, lest the servants having that trouble should take a dislike to the poor creature....I recollect him one day scrambling up on Dr. Johnson's breast, apparently with much satisfaction while my friend, smiling and half-whistling, rubbed his back and pulled him by the tail; and when I observed he was a fine cat, saying, "Why, yes, Sir, but I have had cats whom I liked better than this," And then as if perceiving Hodge to be out of countenance, adding, "But he is a very fine cat, a very fine cat indeed." - James Boswell The more you rub a cat on the rump, the higher she sets her tail. - John Ray If only cats grew into kittens. - R. D. Stern A black cat dropped soundlessly from a high wall, like a spoonful of dark treacle, and melted under a gate. - Elizabeth Lemarchand They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, "Can he name a kitten?" - Samuel Butler Cats are a mysterious kind of folk- there is more passing in their minds than we are aware of. - Sir Walter Scott But buds will be roses, and kittens, cats, - more's the pity.- Louisa May Alcott © 2001 - present. Australian Media Pty Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Please read our Legal Statement and Privacy Policy.